Doc Rose

Leroy "Doc" Rose (22 September 1859-29 July 1893) was an American outlaw of the Old West. An infamous train robber, he rubbed elbows with criminals such as Demon Eyes Collins and Brains Bridges.

Biography
Leroy Rose was born in Richmond, Virginia on 22 September 1859. Rose later left Virginia for economic opportunity in the Old West in 1876 during Reconstruction, a time when the American South was being repaired after the American Civil War left it in ruins. Rose learned to be a physicist in Texas, earning him the nickname "Doc", but he later left this job when he had no real prospect of accumulating more wealth. Rose became known for a series of small robberies in Texas, and he formed a gang of outlaws that included Demon Eyes Collins and Brains Bridges. Rose had already robbed six trains by 1886, when a $5,000 bounty was placed on his head by the state government of Texas. They robbed the "Western Bullet" in 1890, and they stole $1,500 from Union Pacific Railroad. Later, he headed to New Mexico, where he did not have a bounty. There, he robbed the First Bank of Albuquerque of $700, and he fled to Los Lunas, where he rented a small shack to live in.

Death
Joseph T. Wheeler, a local cattle rancher, spotted Doc Rose while he was washing his clothing in a nearby pond, and he intended to collect his bounty. He alerted lawmen in Albuquerque to his presence, and they surrounded his shack at Los Lunas. Doc Rose refused to go to jail, so he equipped himself with a Winchester repeating rifle and fired at the lawmen from his shack, killing one of them. However, he was gunned down by the lawmen, and Wheeler collected his bounty money.